Merci to all of you as you pose good questions and replies, may I assert somehow... in turn.
Some men ONLY have sex, when they took alcohol, unfortunately ! According to my experiences, to what I have seen !
I now stay away from such persons, for many reasons which you can guess.
One reason is that I have found them not only bad in sex, but also very badly in thinking before and afterwards !
It seems to me, that clear thought is essential in living !
That being said, I wonder if Ennis and Jack would have sex WITHOUT booze, and the answer is YES, eventually (since as optom says alcohol precipitates).
Therefore, Ennis and Jack would have been, to me, likely lovers FOR LIFE much, much better - with and/or without being married to their ladies !!
Plus, if they would have gotten married to those ladies, they would have educated those females to accept them as either bis or gays !! May I dare say...
and au revoir,
hugs! My lover/buddy ( a gay man) was alcoholic when I (a gay man) discovered him, and he did not want me at first, as he sought only quick pleasures like Ennis and Jack, but when he saw that there was more which was non-alcohol pleasures, he even became to go to the soup-kitchen to help the poor, and brought food to feed the unfeed !! Without alcohol, he started to discover life was brilliant, joyful !! And he made a circle a gay friends too with mutual help for them and from them !! Of course, he also continued to help heterosexuals and others too !! He became to enrich society and culture !!